japanese - 2:32 am on Mar 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

IncrediBill,
Good point. I was hoping nobody brought Yahoo into this, This does seem at first glance to contradict all of what this thread is about. and it was inevitable that a keen eye spotted it. But wait, there is an explanation.
All the more reason that google should rectify its problem with the 302. And certainly remove any undue penalties for duplicate content regarding innocent websites.
I have not seen any damaging yahoo redirects. In fact, Yahoo acknowledged and took steps so I would imagine that their scripting is efficient and done in a proper manner. Not only that, they would use industry standard servers or better with programmers who are aware of serverside issues. Most of the damaging redirects emanate from independent servers where anybody can haphazardly manage them with websites residing in them in the hundreds. Each within the server can push out damaging directives. I don’t think Yahoo is out to cause any damage. In fact, at the moment Yahoo is the only real big noise that has addressed the issue of the 302 redirects.
Back street hosting companies with fancy looking websites that give the impression that an army of server engineers work there providing a 24 hour service are the places to look for badly configured serverside issues. When you try to contact these busy looking hosting companies many are manned by a sleepy single individual who may not even know that googlebot has a problem with 302. Talk to them about this issue and the reply maybe “you what mate”. You would most certainly have knowledgeable people at Yahoo who would reply that they are well aware of the issue and their system is checked out by the best engineers in the business.
I created my server myself and it is old and totally customized to conform to no standard. God only knows how it keeps going, day and night.
I would not expect to see yahoo create a meta refresh and a deliberate attempt to manipulate googlebot. I would however expect them, being a big and trustworthy company, to generate all sorts of things during a click process. This is not an issue and they have every right to run their business they way they want to. This forum also uses a redirect process where needed, I have never come across a problem associated with it, though it may not have been exploited. And who is to say that Yahoo’s method of redirect is not exploitable. So long as website owners are not damaged by it nobody will raise any dust. We may find that there exists a loophole in the Yahoo system, time will tell and maybe some blackhat gurus are already on the job.
For instance, draw results in yahoo if indeed a 302 benefits the target site with a multiple keyword that draws the most results for a given website, submit the results address to googlebot if it benefits your site. We all knew that one years ago so don’t try it, penalty may await and an automatic dismissal of your entire site. Don’t try to do it to a competitor it will not work.
Well, let us also see, looks like there may be cracks in Yahoo’s armour and it gives results for surfers with all sorts of weird looking redirects that ultimately end up at the target site. Put a wedge in the crack, hammer it and it will split in two.
The internet takes no prisoners, if Yahoo thinks google is having a problem with the 302, well draw your own conclusions.
Addendum to the above.
Let us not drift from the issue at hand. We are talking about deliberate redirects with meta refresh designed to kill sites, and indescriminate and unintentional scripts using go-php, cgi, asp, tracker2, meta refresh, frameset and other destructive elemets and the manipulation of googlebot to create duplicate content pages.